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As the eyes of the world turn towards India where ballot counting is continuing after a month-long election involving 900 million voters, we go to one area in Mumbai where many voters work in the informal sector of laundry.

Their day-to-day life is not so much influenced by politics but more by a need for survival in what is, in many cases, a generations-old industry.

Dhananjay Khadilkar reports from Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai - one of India's largest open-air laundries.

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The Liberian economy has taken a serious nose-dive under the leadership of former soccer icon, President George Weah. He came to power in January 2018, elected on promises to revive the nation’s economy and improve living standards, but he is struggling to turn things around.

Since Weah's election, prices of basic commodities such as rice, cooking oil and sugar have more than doubled. The local currency has seen a drastic depreciation. You currently need 176 Liberian dollars to buy a single United States dollar.

As correspondent Darlington Porkpa reports from Monrovia, there is growing consternation over the government’s inability to address the situation.

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World migratory bird day lands on 11 May. It will be an occasion to highlight thousands of species which migrate around the world, stopping in some of the most beautiful natural wetlands. Sometimes also in the most polluted ones.

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Many residents fear being attacked or killed should they attempt to visit local health units at night since local authorities imposed an indefinite nighttime curfew on the English speaking communities.

In late 2016 protests calling for better treatment of minority English speaking Cameroonians by the Francophone dominated government were met with a brutal crackdown by security forces.

From Bamenda, correspondent Alphonse Tebeck reports.

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Delicious smells have been wafting over Dakar this week as the Afro Cooking roadshow We Eat Africa, set up base in the Senegalese capital. Frequently under-appreciated off the continent, African ingredients have a lot of diversity to them - with no two dishes identical from one country to the next.

A lot of these delicious African recipes are never written down, but are passed on from mother to daughter.

Our correspondent Emmanuelle Landais went to find out how that's starting to change.

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